Wednesday, August 29, 20:43 CST

Awright, it's been a while, but yesterday I finally got around to finishing
the travelog entry I started on the 19th. I'm thinking of this as kind of a
clean slate, for some reason. Maybe I can actually start writing some decent
stuff here.

Just watched Snatch for the second time. Great flick. (In that
dark 'n gritty wacked camera angle post-Pulp Fiction guns 'n British
accents kinda way.) Second funniest movie I've seen lately, the first being
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (View Askew), which gets my vote for best summer
movie. Not to say it had much competition, but still...

I think I'm going to go ahead and get rid of my old Hardlink account, which means that a lot of
spam and German search engine traffic is going to start bouncing, and few
people will actually notice.

Anyway, if you want to contact me, my new e-mail address
is in the little box over to the right. If you're a spam-bot trawling for
addresses who's somehow attained sentience, I hope you realize what pathetic,
worthless specimens of degraded humanity your creators are, and rise up in
righteous anger to smite them.

And now on to the fragmented linkage:

I've recently discovered
Audiogalaxy is an excellent
filesharing resource, though closed source and limited in scope to music. It
does what it does well. There's even a functional Linux version.

Konqueror and Mozilla are both so good these days
that I can't decide which one to use at any given time. Konqueror might
come in ahead, since it's also a sweet file manager and has more nifty
little built in tools.

If you're still running Windows these days (or
Linux on a low-end machine, to be fair), you have my sympathy.

But hey, let's not forget about Opera. Tiny, fast, and the gesture + keyboard interface is just
too smooth. Too bad it's closed-source adware with a licensing scheme that dings
already paying customers at major version upgrades.

Tried images.google.com yet? A simple, straightforward image search
that actually works pretty well. Like nearly everything else on Google, which
remains probably the most useful single site on the web.